DUTERTE TRANSCRIPTS: IBP Davao. 30 Sept. 2017

(Note from MindaNews: This is the official transcript of President Rodrigo Duterte’s speech, released by the Presidential News Desk of the Presidential Communications Office).
* [censored] is part of this official transcript.

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SPEECHOFPRESIDENT RODRIGO ROA DUTERTEDURING THE INSTALLATION OF NEW OFFICERS AND INDUCTION OF NEW MEMBERS OF THE INTEGRATED BAR OF THE PHILIPPINES (IBP) DAVAO CITY CHAPTER
[Delivered at SMX Convention Center in Lanang, Davao City | September 30, 2017]

Kindly sit down. Thank you for the courtesy.

Good evening, ladies and gentlemen.

I would talk randomly. I want a discussion with you tonight. I do not intend to deliver a speech.

But contemporary times, we have experienced a lot of upheavals, trouble for our country, good or bad. Leaders almost brought down from power, about to be brought down, and also the previous ones by a sheer military coup d’états.

I’d like to discuss the environment that we are today. Let me start with onion-skinned and a cliché, which says that a thousand lies being run everyday becomes the truth.

You know, I am a citizen of this Republic. And I never bargained away my Constitutional rights as equally as with the others. I do not do — lose those rights just because I — I was a mayor and I am a President now.

But let me give you this covenant tonight. And I will repeat it. If there is a 200 million in the banks, you will receive my resignation immediately. Sigurado ‘yan.

But before going into the lies, I will just — there’s a lawyer who says that “do not be too onion-skinned”. Even in face of fabricated evidence illegally obtained and added so several times, day in day out. Mag-deposito ka dito, 500, madagdagan bukas ng ganansya mo ng dyes pesos, ilagay mo uli, and they counted it all over again.

What happened to Corona is happening to me. You know, [censored] kung babain mo lang ako, bababa tayong lahat. Don’t give me that [censored]. I do not lose my freedom of expression.

So there are lies based on baseless hundreds of millions and even if I wanted to steal, saan kukunin ‘yang [censored] amount na ‘yan?

You know, politics plays a very important role. ‘Yung hindi makatanggap ng kataluhan nila would keep on hammering because they want to pull you down and erode your leadership. And that cannot be cured by onion-skinned. If your leadership in this country is being eroded by blasphemy, malice…

Sinabi ko magre-resign ako. And to your sorrow, one day lalabas ‘yan. But I will not give them that… ‘Di ko ibigay the silver platter [censored] hanapin ninyo. At huwag ninyo akong — I cannot answer because I have — I should not be onion-skinned, [censored] statement is that?

And you just say, “Do not be onion-skinned.” Who [censored] are you to tell me in face of fabricated evidence? Sinabi ko na sa — before the election, wala ako niyan. At wala ako ngayon, I said, to your sorrow. Ihampas ko sa mukha mo ‘yang [censored] papel na ‘yan.

I’m sure it will be released in due time. Pero ‘yung — ang source niyan, tama. In-add lang nila araw-araw. Eh nagne-negosyo ‘yung asawa ko. I do not… ‘Yung sa palengke, sa meat, why? We do not have the… We cannot struggle in this life to make a living?

Assure, all in all, it would not go beyond 40 million, my lifetime savings. A part of that was my hereditary — kayong taga-Davao, alam ninyo ‘yan, properties… ‘Yan, totoo ‘yan.

Pati ‘yung ibang eleks — saan na ‘yung ibang pera ko? ‘Di nagastos ko sa eleksyon. And in face of accusation, the Ombudsman [censored]. You say now that you have evidence of Mr. Duterte, do not worry. We will proceed with the case. Yet, they… Sabi ng AMLC, they have not issued any resolution to release the statement of my bank account.

Tapos sabihin mo sa akin na, “Do not be onion-skinned,” in face of the fabrication and the illegally obtained… Onion-skinned ‘yan? How about my right again to freedom of expression? [Censored] nasaan na — ikaw ganunin ko? [Censored].

Magsalita kayo parang onion-skinned. Why? What thick of my skin do you prefer? The skin of the bull? You know, that is a oft-repeated Supreme Court decision. So kung wala nang iba, do not be too onion-skinned, okay.

I challenge the two, we will go to Congress, in a simple ceremony, we sign the letter of resignation. Sige nga. Then let us open all the books pati inyo. Bakit ka magsalita na…?

And itong [censored] Carandang na ito, tingnan mo. Using falsified, going public, knowing that the AMLC council has not given its authority to release. At ang sabi pa doon, they said, “Can I have it?”[‘Yung, meron ba ‘yung ano?]

“The Anti-Money Laundering Council Secretariat received on 6 September 2017 and 17 August 2017 a letter of Overall Deputy Ombudsman Arthur Carandang requesting it to initiate investigation on subject matter. We categorically stated that before — that the Anti-Money Laundering Council is not the source of the documents and information attached by Senator Trillanes in his complaint regarding the alleged bank accounts of the President. It has neither provided the Office of the Ombudsman with any report as a consequence of any investigation of such account on mind on any purpose. We have yet to evaluate the request and the intention of an investigation as well as the release of any report on the subject will depend on such evaluation. Suffice it to state that the attachment of the complaint and the alleged debits and credits representing outflows and inflows of funds were added together thus making the result total amounts wrong and misleading.

Meanwhile, we cannot make further comments considering the confidentiality.”

Tapos sabihin ninyo na corrupt, [censored] buong Pilipinas — how about the six million plus and the base, who voted for me? Gusto niyo akong siraan sa kanila?

Now look, I will not submit jurisdiction to the Ombudsman. Okay? If we cannot decide how to do it, then I will not — Congress refuses it. The Supreme Court is headed by — I’m not saying the membership, I have deep respect for the…Kilala ko…

Pero ito, if it’s headed by a corrupt, wala sa SALN diyan ‘yung Piatco na ‘yan. [censored] Piatco na nabalita ‘yan, the legal circle. It was — who will decide? The Armed Forces and the police will decide it for us para hindi magkagulo-gulo itong bayan.

Onion-skinned, you repeat a lie every day. Sabihin kita [censored]… Araw-arawin kita. Can you bear it? I’ll talk to you now, and I will try which is [censored]… Stand there and listen to me for a thousand times. Sige nga.

I said I will stop drugs in three to six months. My template was Davao. Pagdating ko sa Maynila, when I had access to all of the confidential and secret files, came up with this name of nine generals. How can I stop it?

I did not start to operate. After two months pa ako. Kasi kapa pa ako kung sino ‘yung mga pulis na — naga-juggle pa ako. Sabi ko kay Bato, “Huwag muna.” And yet, you count. Kasimple lang naman niyan. Ilan ang namatay before — two weeks before I became President? And about one or two months after I assumed the Presidency?

Paano ako mag-corruption? Piskal ako dito and at the same time I was a private — I was a special prosecutor of the Tanodbayan before. Wala pa ‘yang Ombudsman. Wala pa ‘yang Ombudsman.

Kaya alam ko kung paano ka magtindig diyan, sentensyahan ka, you’d be prosecuted. [censored] Gumawa ng ganon. Early on in my life, I had to work because of — kulang eh. The day-to-day earnings of a new lawyer would not suffice for the financial…

And isa pa. Itong mga… You know, in school, we were taught to apply the law equally. Enforce the law against all who are responsible therefore. That’s a very basic and blessed thing.

Itong droga, for your information, kung mahina ka diyan, cannot be sought to look for them, buy and sell, because it is impossible to do. It has to be an organized crime. Hindi ‘yan pwede — may tig-luto talaga and…

By the way, iyong binitawan ko na, we are now controlled by the Bamboo Triad. Kinorner na ang lahat sa Southeast Asia ng Bamboo and 14K. There has to be some cooking and there has to be the lieutenants who will distribute it to the peddlers.

Tawag nila ‘yang basura. ‘Yung maliliit na. That cannot be done — buying and selling, trafficking of drugs — cannot prosper if it is not organized.

They lord it over for several generations. And they were into drugs — doon sa matrix. He was the recipient, got it from Marawi. I have been telling you all along. Pati itong Human Right…S****** The bleeding hearts kuno, pa-ekek-ekek, human rights, human rights. And yet, during elections, wala, because Parojinog will just simply kill you.

He even killed his own policemen who were against him. ‘Yung anim, ang dalawa nakita niya doon sa… There was this digging — dugout — those were the bones of the two policemen.

So what? It’s the Constitution says the President can pardon. So what’s the [censored] objection there?

Hindi nga nagsabi na he could not pardon even himself. Eh ‘di pati ako, isali ko na ang sarili ko. Kaya huwag mong sabihin na ganun lang, p***** i** magkagulo… I will not submit to the jurisdiction of… Waving fabricated evidence in front, lying through his teeth in front of the nation. Tapos you want me to submit to the jurisdiction of the Ombudsman and who will now investigate? The Ombudsman.

Si Carandang. Ito si Morales. Who will investigate her? There’s a vacuum in the law. Impeachment? Who will do the legwork of investigation? I can do it. Because I have the authority to investigate. I am not saying that I will — factual lang. Ilang mga pulis, ilang mga na-convicted.

I will ask for the records and I will have analyzed, and I will talk to the policemen, I will talk to the generals, and I will talk to the people who were unjustly convicted. And I will encourage them to file a case. And when the time comes, if we cannot agree with each other, then let us decide to submit it to the Armed Forces kasi magkagulo tayo.

You decide. Mag-resign kami, you decide. Sinong mag-decide? Who will be fair enough to do it? None. Kasi ang Ombudsman is not answerable to anybody.

I can be impeached, can be impeached, but how about the investigation? You cannot expect Congress to do that. There has to be some legwork. Then the NBI and the CIAs will do it for us.

I will also investigate. Hindi ‘yan investigate, ipatawag ko si Conchita. That’s a very poor dimension of looking at things. Pero certainly ito si Carandang, I can summon him. Because he committed a crime. Not an administrative one. I’m not trying him, because I’m not a judge. But he has to answer for this, or else, I will go there and bring him to the NBI.

You know, I’m not trying to… There is also a cliché which says… I was elected by a margin of 6 million. So gamitan ko kayo ng colloquial. Onion-skinned, sabi ko — the truth — a lie repeated a thousand times is the truth.

I’ll add another one, a colloquial. The voice of God… The voice of the people is the voice of God. You want to rule this country? Fine. Get elected.

Pero itong panahon ko sa mundong ito, I only pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do or any kindness that I can show to my fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it for I shall not pass this way again.

It was only after I became President na sabi ng nanay ko, “umalis ka diyan”. Kasi naguguluhan na sa bahay. Maraming tao palagi. Because people would know how to navigate kasi governor ang tatay ko noon.

Ganon na lang kami kahirap? I’ll tell you the secret, ‘yung ice plant. Nobody could operate an ice plant before. You have to get a congressional franchise. If you cannot get a congressional franchise, it’s not your fault. It’s the law. So kung walang ibang franchise diyan, ikaw ‘yung solo ‘yung — ikaw ‘yung source of all the ice ginagamit sa Davao. From ice cold beer to lahat. Part of the bulk of that money is from the ice plant.

I don’t know but I said it, it’s a good discussion tonight. At least I have a — audience that’s very quiet and listening.

I apologize to the others who have no business in this, but ‘yan lahat sinabi ko. I have my… You have my commitment. Abogado to abogado, lawyer to lawyer: I will resign if it goes beyond… kasi may mga lupa. So you have to…

Kaya minsan you begin to question God. If God is perfect, why are there so many imperfections in life? ‘Di ba sa Ateneo? First year, second year kami, ‘yung lahat ‘yang three generations above three gen… Father Mark Falvey, it’s in the… tignan mo ‘yung… He was the priest who was sued for being a pedophile.

Katoliko, susmaryosep. ‘Yung catechism. Naku. God created paradise and he created man. Tama na sana ‘yung tayo-tayo lang dito mag-upakan. He created a woman. But anong God na ‘to, perfect eh. When we use of a very — when we talk of a place that comes to mind, paradise it’s — there’s everything that we have and happiness abounds.